comparison of the two.
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37. Westfall, Never at Rest, 301–5, and Anderson, ''Editor's Introduction,'' in Works, 6: 57–61. 38. Fiering, Edwards's Moral Thought, 16; Norman Fiering, ''The Rationalist Foundations of Jonathan Edwards's Metaphysics,'' in Nathan O. Hatch and Harry S. Stout, eds., Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 84. 39. Anderson, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 6: 23–24, 98, 111–12. Avihu Zale, in his valuable overivew ''Jonathan Edwards and the Language of Nature: The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning,'' Journal of Religious History 26, no. 1 (February 2002): 15–41, suggests some of the other sources of Edwards' scientific thinking.
40. Louis E. Loeb, From Descartes to Hume: Continental Metaphysics and the Development of Modern Philosophy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981), 29–30, cited in Fiering, ''Jonathan Edwards's Metaphysics,'' 77.
41. It is not clear when the young Edwards read Malebranche or even if the Frenchman was a direct influence, yet there is enough resemblance to make it seem that Malebranche's formulations may have helped him consolidate his views. Fiering, ''Jonathan Edwards's Metaphysics,'' 84–88, and see also Fiering, Edwards's Moral Thought, 40–45. Mason I. Lowance Jr., ''Jonathan Edwards and the Platonists: Edwardsean Epistemology and the Influence of Malebranche and Norris,'' Studies in American Puritan Spirituality 2 (1991): 129–52. Anderson, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 6: 72–73, 86–87.
42. Anderson, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 6: 36, and ibid., 102–3, 123–24, for comparison of the two.
43. On Berkeley's work in America, see Edwin S. Gaustad, George Berkeley in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979). On Edwards' trip see, Kenneth Minkema, ''Jonathan Edwards's Defense of Slavery,'' Massachusetts Historical Review 2 (2002).
44. ''Things To Be Considered,'' Works, 6: 235, and Anderson, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 6: 53–57.
45. Anderson, ''Editor's Introduction,'' Works, 6: 66. 46. ''Of Atoms,'' Works, 6: 216. 47. ''Things To Be Considered,'' Works, 6: 241–42. This view of continuous creation is consistent with teachings of Augustine and Scripture, as in Hebrews 1:3 and Colossians, 1:16–17. I'm grateful to George Claghorn for pointing this out. 48. ''Of Atoms,'' Works, 6: 216. 49. ''Things To Be Considered,'' Works, 6: 234–35. Cf. Sang Hyun Lee, The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988), 10–14, on the implications of this relational-dispositional view of reality.
50. ''Of Being,'' Works, 6: 203–6. 51. ''I used to be mightily pleased with the study of the old logic, . . . because it was very pleasant to see my thoughts . . . ranged into order and distributed into classes and subdivisions.'' ''The Mind,'' Works, 6: 345. Cf. Stephen H. Daniel, The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: A Study in Divine Semiotics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), 68– 83. 52. William Ames, Technometry, trans. and with introduction and commentary by Lee W. Gibbs (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979), 93.
53. See, e.g., the account of Samuel Johnson's learning of these ideas as a student at the Connecticut Collegiate school, just a few years before Edwards, in Joseph Ellis, The New